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METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR FEEDING ARTICLES 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Original Filed March 15, 1935 1:0 0 o o o o o-\o o y 3 l L J41 l T K INVENTOR ATTORNEY Fatentecl Mar. 2 1 93? ETHOD-'01? AND MEANS FOR FEEDING ART L J'osephPeyser, Mountv'ernon, N. Y.

Original application March 15, 1935, Serial No. 11,269,, Divided and this-application November 5, 1935, SerialNo. 43,280

3. Glaims. (01. 271-9):

This invention relates, to an improved sheet eedin ap tu nd method. and has as, an object the provision of. a simple, rapid and eif'ec tive sheet feeding. arrangement adapted to feed a plurality ofsheets in a novel manner. In the embodiment illustrated herein, cover blanks for match-books are fed to. a conveyer.

This application is a divisionof application Ser. No. 11,269 filed, March 15, 19.35 for Methods of and meansfor producing match-books.

In the accompanying drawings, the invention is shown in a. concrete and preferredform in which:

Fig. l is a diagrammatic perspective view illus: trating the feeding of a blank to the conveyer;

Fig. 2 is a top-plan view of the machinawith parts broken away;

Fig. 3'is a view side elevation, partly in sac-.-

tion, looking in the direction of arrow 3 in Fig.

with parts broken away;

Fig. 4 is a horizontalisectional view substane.

hand end of Fig. 2, partly in section; and

Fig. 9 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view substantially on the plane of line 9-9 of Fig. 8. In the illustrated embodiment two match-book cover blanks are fed simultaneously to an intermittent conveyer at one end of a match-book machine, the conveyer being driven from the 0pposite end of the machine. For convenience the match-book-forming and handling mechanism, located between the blank feed and the conveyer 0 drive, and shown in detail in the above-mentioned. application, has been omitted.

20 indicates a conveyer here in the form of an intermittently movable sprocket chain having blank or cover supporting compartments or surfaces 2I, said chain being trained over sprockets 22 and 23 at opposite ends of the machine (Figs. 2, 5, 8 and 9).

Two cover hoppers 24 are arranged in tandem but not closely adjacent. The method used is to feed two cover blanks simultaneously once to every two intermittent movements of conveyer 2B. This method will be most readily understood by referring to Fig. '7 which shows the two cover stacks and the position of cover blanks on the conveyer after each of a number of movements of said conveyer. As there shown, the covers do not fall on the conveyer surfaces directly beneath the stacks but are. fed (by means presently to be described) forward in the direction of movement of the-conveyer and downward beneath guides 25 to the conveyer. I

Nine positions of the conveyer are shown in the diagram. At the beginning of the operation two-'coverfblanks, indicated: by: I, are simultaneously fed to the conveyer, and it will be seen that these two blanks are spaced relatively widely apart, and may be denominated a first and a fourth blank inasmuch as they are separated by two empty conveyer compartments. Thecon veyer now makes a step: in the direction of the arrow and then stops; when it arrives in thesecond position, in which position no cover blanks arev fed to. the conveyer.; The conveyer now makes another step and arrives-at the third posi tion, andduring its pause in that position two -Q0v r b ni s he e ind cat d bill. are

to the conveyer. Another step of the conveyer brings us to the fourth position in which no cover blanks are fed. When the conveyer arrives at the fifth position, two more cover blanks, indicated by 3 are fed to the conveyer. In the sixth position of the conveyer no cover blanks are fed, but in the seventh position two cover blanks, 4, are again fed. In the eighth position, no cover blanks are fed, but in the ninth position two cover blanks, 5, are fed. It is unnecessary to show additional positions of the conveyer because it will be seen from the foregoing that a first and a fourth blank are fed to the conveyer after each two intermittent movements thereof, and that the result of this is to produce a succession of closely spaced blanks on the conveyer, every compartment being filled except the one marked 0. This compartment can be filled by hand, or the foremost blank marked I, adjacent to 0, can be removed, the proper succession of blanks being thereafter produced automatically.

Extending longitudinally through the machine is main shaft 26 that here makes one revolution to each cycle of the machine, i. e. to each matchbook produced. 21 is a cross-shaft deriving its motion from 26 by means of bevel gears 28 and 29 (Figs. 4, 5, and 6) and it will be seen that r the gear ratio is such that shaft 21 makes one revolution to every two revolutions of 26. Shaft 21 actuates the cover feeding mechanism, which latter is constructed as follows. Cover blank hoppers 24, of which there are two arranged in tandem above the conveyer, are composed of channels carried by framework 30 of the machine, and are open at the bottom. 3| indicates a horizontal slide mounted in the framework below the hoppers and carries two pairs of feed members 32 and 33, one pair for each hopper. Reciprocating motion is imparted to slide 3| by means of eccentric 34 on shaft 21, arm 35, lever 36 on rock-shaft 31, lever 36a also on rock-shaft 31, and link 38.

In accordance with the usual operation of hopper feeds of this character, the lowermost blank is fed forwardly out of the hopper and drops through an opening in the framework to the conveyor. Front-registering devices indicated at 39 may be used in connection with the hopper feed and likewise, in the present instance, movable guides or ejectors 25 may be utilized. As here shown, guides 25 are carried by brackets 40 mounted on vertical slide 4|, which latter is actuated from cam 42 on shaft 21 by means of cam roller 43, arm 44, rock-shaft 45, arm 46 and link 41. In order to prevent more than one cover blank from being fed at a time, rollers 48 may be employed that are conveniently driven by means of a belt 49 trained over a pulley 50, moving with sprocket 23, and over pulleys carried by rollers 48.

Conveyer 20 is advanced intermittently one step to each revolution of the main shaft by any suitable meanssuch as the following. Sprocket 22 is secured to shaft |4| to which latter is also secured slotted member I42 of a Geneva stop motion device. Mounted on shaft I43 is a twoarmed member I44 carrying rollers I45 to engage with the slots in member I42. Shaft I43 is driven from shaft M9 by means of bevel gears I46 and I41. Shaft 9 makes one revolution to each revolution of main shaft 26, and shaft I43 makes one revolution to each two revolutions of shaft H9, but inasmuch as shaft I43 carries two arms I44, it will be seen that shaft MI, and hence sprocket 22 and conveyer 20,

makes two steps to each revolution of shaft I43, and one step to each revolution of main shaft 26.

The operation of the device is as follows. Cover blank feed slide 3| advances at every second step of conveyer 20, the pairs of feed mem bers 32 and 33 sliding the lowermost blank C in each hopper 24 against front-registering devices 39 in position above two conveyer compartments 2| spaced by two intervening compartments 2|. Rollers 48 prevent the feed of more than one blank at a time from each hopper 24. Blanks C drop through openings into conveyer compartments 2|, with the aid of guides or ejectors 25, which are depressed by slide 4| actuated by cam 42. Slide 4| rises and slide 3| is retracted into position to repeat the feeding operation at the second succeeding step of conveyer 20.

I claim:

1. The method of delivering a succession of blanks to a movable conveyer, which consists in simultaneously delivering a first and a fourth blank to said conveyer; in advancing said conveyer a distance equal to two adjacent blank spaces; and in continuing to simultaneously deliver a first and a fourth blank to said conveyer every time said conveyer has advanced two adjacent blank spaces.

2. The method of delivering a succession of blanks to a conveyer, which consists in advancing the conveyer intermittently step by step; and in delivering simultaneously a first and a fourth blank to said conveyer each time it has advanced two steps.

3. The combination with a conveyer having a succession of blank-receiving surfaces; of means to advance the conveyer intermittently step by step; and means to simultaneously feed, after each two steps of the conveyer, two blanks to said conveyer, one to a first and the other to a fourth blank-receiving surface.

JOSEPH PEYSER. 

